Mohamed Kamal Harb

Palestine
Mohamed Harb Was born in Gaza City where he lives and works. Has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Al Najah University in Nablus (2001). He is a member of the Palestinian Association of Fine Artists. He has been working as a director at the Palestinian Space Channel in Gaza since 2003. Harb has also participated in many local, regional and international exhibitions, festivals and workshops which were organized in Europe and different Arab countries . Harb had witnessed many hard events and situations in Gaza such as the uprising, blockade, and war and he still lives under the hard stand still situation in Gaza. His art has been influenced by the gray reality of the Palestinian issue as he tried to characterize it by colors. Nevertheless, all of his different types of work investigate the hidden human body. Since 1995 Harb has been working in plastic and other fields of arts. Recently, he has become interested in photography, video art and documentary direction films within the plastic artistic vision as he has deep imagination in light formation art and image creation through a combination of art and technology. Harb becomes one of the most important contemporary artists in the field of visual art. Also he is very active in organizing many exhibitions and workshops in Palestine and abroad. Harb has got many local and international awards and several grants for his innovation not only in project implementation but also the use of IT and video techniques. Harb has been working on several projects since three years, including the artistic ( A biography of Gaza ) which has recently been shown at many States . Harb, like many other artists, is still looking forward to reflecting the reality of his dream to build a better one in Gaza far away from gray colors > harb.art@hotmail.com